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There are a lot of tutorials that show how to change an address like: 1. www.mysite.com/products.p hp?product_id=1234 into others like: 2. www.mysite.com/products/1 234 In this article we'd like to go one step forward and create something like: 3. www.mysite.com/easy-to-re member-product-name

The creation of a dynamic nested unordered list without using any JavaScript code is sometimes a problem because the script needs to "remember" the values, sub values and also the query string from previous clicked links. In this tutorial we will learn how to create a dynamic navigation menu powered by PHP and MySQL only. While using standard HTML elements (unordered lists) it�s easy to add different CSS styles later.

JavaScript is mainly used as a client side scripting language, while PHP is a server side technology. Unlike Java or ASP.Net, PHP doesn't have tools to make it work client side. That is why you need to combine JavaScript and PHP scripts to develop powerful web-applications.

A collection of 19 tips on creating your own PHP functions. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on defining functions, defining arguments, passing references, returning references, argument default values, etc. Special topics are: How To Pass Variables By References? How Arrays Are Passed Through Arguments? How To Pass Arrays By References? How To Return an Array from a Function? What Is the Scope of a Variable Defined in a Function? How To Access a Global Variable inside a Function? How To Return a Reference from a Function? How To Specify Argument Default Values? How To Define a Function with Any Number of Arguments?

In this tutorial, you'll learn the basics of PHP. ALso explained is a typical situation in which you can use PHP.

Creating an image with PHP & GD library on the Fly , and add fonts to decorate it .Could be used as hit counter or just to show your database stats on main page .

Need to test your php scripts your making without uploading it to a remote server? This tutorial shows you all of things you need to download, install, set up on your computer to make it into a fully functioning web server with PHP and MYSQL on Windows.

This article covers the basics of wml, how to set up your apache server, and php. Covering the basics allows you to set up the wireless environment for your site.

Tired of sending those drab textual notifications and newsletters to your friend and clients? Ever wanted to send attachments and/or HTML embedded email. The answer is MIME. This article explains the basics of MIME, creating MIME-compliant messages and then ends with a working class implementation of sending MIME complaint email in PHP. Note that references to calling script, caller etc. denote the script that uses the class we are about to develop and client/MUA etc. denote a mail reading client or mail user agent.

This tutorial with revised code shows you how to send email to multiple recipients using loops.

Creating images on the fly can be a very useful skill. In this tutorial we will show you how to get quite interesting and useful effects using image handling functions. We will review two practical tasks: creating security images (captcha) on the fly and building a bar chart using numerical values retrieved from MySQL database.

This tutorial will walk you through the process of making a threaded discussion system. Using PEAR::DB and PHP 4 we'll create a recursive function that will display comments in a threaded style.

Have you wondered where and how people leave off your site? Well, this one-page tutorial shows you how to setup a PHP redirection script with logging feature. You can use the script for link-based as well as form-based redirection while logging your visitors.

1.Creating Database Tables 2.Introduction to the Header/Footer System 3.Getting Ready for Action 4.Displaying the Forum Overview 5.Signing up a User 6.Adding Authentication and User Levels 7.Creating a Category 8.Adding Categories to index.php 9.Creating a Topic 10.Category View 11.Topic View 12.Adding a Reply

PHP 5 includes a powerful set of DOM manipulation classes that gives you full control over HTML and XML documents. This functionality behaves very similar to JavaScript's DOM manipulation engine. In this tutorial, we'll explore the DOMDocument class by generating an entire HTML5 page without writing a single bit of raw markup. This may not be practical for most applications, but it should give you a good idea of how the basic DOMDocument methods work.

How to calculate the difference between two dates in PHP.

Providing a simple contact form could be a big security issue if the form script doesn't have any validation or security features. In the past it was very common to use simple mail scripts to post a web form to some e-mail address. A lot of the spam getting people in their mail box is send with vulnerable form mail scripts. These tutorial will show you how to create a simple mail form using Ajax and PHPMailer.

This tutorial will show you how to build the administrative backend as well as the display frontend of a button link system.

PHP can also be run as a command line script like c, c++, java, etc. This article provides an introduction to command line scripting in PHP and emphasise on its significance in PHP applications.

This is a short tutorial on how to make your own simple hitcounter in PHP.